The glass roof
One long hall on iron columns.
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Easier than it was, but not like Sweden. In **Helsinki** the options are good: Middle Eastern, Somali and Turkish restaurants, particularly in **Hakaniemi** and around the station, halal shops, and sections in the larger supermarkets. In **Tampere** there is less but it exists, around the university and the centre. In **Rovaniemi** and Lapland the options are very limited — plan for that. **The general caution**: pork is basic to Finnish cooking, meat stock in soups is common, and blood sausage is widespread. Fish and salmon are a safe choice available everywhere, and Finnish cooking is rich in them.
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Tampere Market Hall is **the largest covered market hall in the Nordic countries**, built in 1901 in the neo-Renaissance manner with a long front on the main Hämeenkatu street. Inside is one long hall under a glass roof on iron columns, holding about forty stalls: butchers, lake fish sellers, bakeries, cheesemongers, cafés, and spice and tea sellers. It is **a working market rather than a sight**: people in Tampere have shopped here daily for a hundred and twenty years, and the prices are the city's. The stall visitors seek out is the **mustamakkara** seller — the black blood sausage Tampere is known for. **Note if you avoid this**: it is blood sausage, sold fresh and cooked in the hall. But there is much else: smoked fish, Karelian pasties, and leipäjuusto, the squeaky cheese served warmed with jam. **Entry is free**, and the hall closes on Sundays.
One long hall on iron columns.
Served warmed with cloudberry jam.
Hämeenkatu 19, Tampere